Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoffrey Ross comments ‘ It has been noticed that many men wash their hair in water that is too hot ( which over-stimulates the sebaceous glands and so makes the scalp greasier than it should be ) and are rough-actioned with the towel when drying the hair . |
| 2 | Not only is there a lack of research evidence to support this view , but it has been argued that many children do better remaining in a single-parent family than in having to make further adjustments to a third form of family life — the step-family ( Richards and Dyson , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | During a 17-month-long crackdown on burglary across London detectives have been told that many thieves use the drivers for shifting hi-fis , televisions and videos . |
| 4 | Many genes are transcribed and many proteins synthesized . |
| 5 | It has been shown that many additives are responsible for behavioural problems among young people , such as irritability , clumsiness , excitability and aggressiveness . |
| 6 | Regional terminals will also be developed although many critics believe that British Rail 's plans in this area are over-cautious . |
| 7 | It might therefore be expected that many contests would provide fatalities , but this was not the case . |
| 8 | Members of the Guild are also demanding that government advice on healthy eating should be clarified because many hospitals and schools ( which have food policies and guidelines with perfect aims and objectives ) still serve meals to patients or pupils that are unacceptable . |
| 9 | Damage to trade will be minimised if many countries agree to harmonise their environmental rules . |
| 10 | It can be seen that many issues on the administrative side affect the social services . |
| 11 | It has to be said that many parents themselves share this view . |
| 12 | It may be argued that many forms of ‘ fringe medicine ’ are not dependent upon any belief in any religion or ‘ god ’ . |
| 13 | It can be argued that many projects fall into this category , perhaps usefully called development engineering . |
| 14 | With the move towards disintermediation , it could be argued that many banks are driven to taking on less credit-worthy customers , with associated increases in credit risk . |
| 15 | In primitive societies with small , self-sufficient units there was no differentiation between centre and periphery , and it could be argued that many peasants in Russia remained at this level of perception during NEP . |
| 16 | For this reason , amongst others , it may be anticipated that many parents of children who truant will , at the end of the day , continue to be dealt with in punitive fashion . |
| 17 | They should be shown that many texts make assumptions about knowledge shared by the author and reader . |
| 18 | Even if it can be shown that many authorities will have elections at that time , we must not be naive again . |
| 19 | It should also be noted that many universities offer extra-mural courses which have no fixed entrance requirements , that the Open University is open entry in terms of prior qualifications , and that many institutions are now developing ‘ access ’ courses which provide non-standard routes of entry to first degrees . |
| 20 | Unless you or your club subscribe to the amount required , it probably will not be raised , the defence for the Act will not be mounted and many miles of river will be lost . |
| 21 | A more diverse and better developed flora would result ; erosion would be reduced and many groups of animals , insects for example , would increase . |
| 22 | While there is undoubtedly a demand for more golf courses , it needs to be underlined that many applications are purely speculative . |
| 23 | It must be emphasised that many factors in the child 's motivation and experience affect both development and learning . |
| 24 | Again it should be emphasised that many sufferers never receive counselling ( except from a sponsor ) or go into residential treatment in the first place and that residential treatment centres have no place other than to help sufferers remove blocks to their understanding of the principles of recovery of the . |
| 25 | It ca n't be denied that many players have John Mayall to thank for their career launch … |
| 26 | An animal sheltering in them can only too easily be cornered and many hole-dwellers take steps to reduce that risk . |
| 27 | It should be mentioned that many economists regard search unemployment as inevitable and , at least in one sense , desirable . |
| 28 | Many questions have been posed and many recommendations highlighted in this debate . |
| 29 | Of Leicestershire 's 370 medieval settlements no less than sixty have been deserted and many others are now much smaller than they were in their heyday during the thirteenth and early-fourteenth century . |
| 30 | Teachers are finding that many children are spending substantial amounts of time playing the games to the detriment of their school work . |